List of points

Reject your pessimism and don’t allow those around you to be pessimistic. — God should be served with cheerfulness and abandonment.

Along the way to personal sanctity we can at times get the impression that we are going backwards instead of forwards, that we are getting worse instead of better.

As long as there is interior struggle this pessimistic thought is only an illusion, a deception to be rejected as false.

—Persevere and don’t worry. If you fight with tenacity you are making progress and are growing in sanctity.

In your work with souls — and all your activity should be work with souls — be filled with faith, with hope, with love, because all the difficulties will be overcome.

To confirm this truth for us, the Psalmist wrote: Et tu, Domine, deridebis eos: ad nihilum deduces omnes gentes — You, O Lord, will laugh at them: You will bring them to nothing.

These words confirm those other words: Non praevalebunt; the enemies of God shall not prevail. They will not have any power against the Church, nor against those who serve the Church as instruments of God.